swimming

Update: Sad news! Soon after I posted this update this morning, CNN reported that Diana Nyad had to be pulled from the water due to severe jellyfish stings and a dangerous lightening storm. “With all the threats continuing, Diana decided that it was not a risk that we wanted to take,” Nyad’s operations chief Mark Sollinger said.

With five gold medals so far in Beijing and a chance for three more, Michael Phelps is already the winningest olympian of all time and he is in position to break the record for most golds in a single olympic games. Is he the best athlete in the world?